Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845204433 ISBN 13 : 9781845204433

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

What do your shoes say about you? Shoes are now much more than just things to walk in. From kids on the block to models on the catwalk, we use them to signal how fashionable we are. But, beyond style, this most intimate object communicates much more ...our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. And, before they became supreme objects of desire, shoes had a history. From ancient times to the present, shoes have had a cultural as well as a practical purpose. Within these pages is pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about shoes - the tiny crushing shoes of China, the infamous chopine with its 23-inch heel, how dandies made men's shoes beautiful in the eighteenth century, and how the powers of conservatism made them dull again, war and the wellington boot, sex and the high heel, the codes of the "gay shoe," shoes in fairytales and in art, the irresistible rise of the sneaker, and the cult of shoe designers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Peter McNeil is Distinguished Professor in Design History at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His many books include Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World (2018), Luxury: A Rich History (2016), The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives (2010), and Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (2006)

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-editor (with Anne Gerritsen) of Writing Material Culture History (2014; 2nd Ed. 2021

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845204433
• ISBN 13: 9781845204433
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 658
• Éditeur: McNeil Peter, Riello Prof. Giorgio
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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